Or going to be looking to do is ensure enhanced redundancy payment to maintain Boris Johnson has been challenged over remarks he made in an article he wrote in 1995 in which he described single mothers as uppity and irresponsible he said the quote had been taken out of context and he meant absolutely no disrespect during a phone in on l b c radio he was asked by a single mother why he was happy to criticize people like her but wasn't prepared to discuss his own family Mr Johnson replied that he loved his children very much but they weren't standing in the election he was also asked by the presenter Nick Ferrari how many trade deals Britain had signed ahead of breaks it I can't give the answer as to how many deals of actually form I thought was what we can't do David of because of our continuation of membership can't you don't know how many those have been done prime minister that we can't form a we can't conclude as you look at how many of almost ready to go how much how many of unready there are a number that I haven't read No I have to contact I have to come back and give you the 50 number there are a number the virtually ready to go the Maltese government has turned down a request for immunity from prosecution for a top businessman in return for testifying about the murder of a journalist Daphne Carolina the lead singer was killed by a car bomb and 2017 the business man your going Fanuc who was detained on his yacht last week had filed a direct appeal to the president the former Conservative m.p. Harvey Proctor has renewed his attack on the Metropolitan Police for the way to handle an investigation into false claims of a v.i.p. Paedophile ring as to Proctor is to receive a total of 900000 pounds in compensation and legal costs he said he hoped the money would deter Scotland Yard from assuming the guilt of innocent suspects. A world renowned American climber has died attempting to descend the side of a cliff face in Mexico brand go bright who was $31.00 fell about a 1000 feet on a route called the Shining Path in the north of the country and his Crawford reports Brad go bright was best known for climbing without using ropes a practice known as free so doing he died after successfully going out the Shining Path in the northern state of New Waverly on Witnesses say the accident happened as he was abseiled back down the face with another climber Aiden Yacob 7 they both fell but while Mr Yacob son landed on a ledge and survived Mr Goh bright dropped a 1000 feet to his death other climbers have paid tribute to the dead man one saying he had a magic about him on the rock arsenal of science their manager Emery the club's currently going through its worst winless run in all competitions since 1902 Mr Emery's assistant Freddie Lundberg has been put in charge temporarily senior football reporter in Dennis reports you know Emery lasted 18 months after replacing the long serving arson Venga a 5th place finish. Last season but in this campaign arsenal seem to have lost their way last night's defeat to track Frankfurt means it's 7 games without a win but that it isn't isn't just based on form there have been concerns behind the scenes regarding the style of play and also communication issues in a statement Arsenal say that is fission has been taken due to results and performances not being at the level required b.b.c. News this is b.b.c. Radio 4 now we continue grandmothers Sally vexes tendin new novel about 3 women and the children they help raise despite man having quarter in the act before branches promotion for shoplifting hasn't abated the reader is Eleanor Brown. Although Blanchard weaned herself off excessive alcohol the shoplifting had persisted she was rather good at it she found you might she reflected even call it an accomplishment it was for Albert a mythical lover that she proud the stores for pickings designed to impress and allure Nan was right over the weeks al but had become real she was in a department store when her phone rang displaying an unfamiliar number granny Kitty darling whose phone is this my friend's face gave it to me and what do your parents think they don't know can you where are you mean faith thought we'd come and find you plant was so Boyd up by the surprise meeting with Kitty and her friend that afterwards she decided to walk home after a while she was conscious of footsteps following her she slowed to allow whoever this was to overtake but instead a hand fell on her shoulder pixies me a man's voice said I think you have something in your bag madam he stared at her with hard grey eyes this was disturbing Blanche felt she was going pale you took something from the stores the man said I saw you put it in your bag I could make you come with me to the police OTOH don't plant pleaded Please don't to our surprise the man relaxed his frown Normally I would I was going to nick you before then I saw you with those girls nice go I didn't want to shame you in front of them a now my shifts over. Blanche was sweating so copiously that she was sure the large wet patches she felt under her arms must be showing through her coat thank you honestly I don't know why I do it Greta mainly isn't it if we're being honest and Emma says suggested Mind you it takes 2 I couldn't myself be 2 for it I was too blunt said for it scared I mean of being caught not so's I noticed cool as a cucumber you were defense your cuppa he said and he said You look as if you could do with one and I'm parched side by side they walked in silence to an old fashioned tea room that it's a vide the area's upmarket improvements Blanche drank her tea glad to be saying little while he told his name was Alan McLean and if he'd taken the job to fill in time after his wife died she was relieved when this ordeal by politeness seemed to be over and he asked for the bill her attempt to pay was swept aside call it an opportunity for us both to make a new start it's decided me I'm sending in my notice when I get home but what will you do then she asked guiltily feeling that she was to blame I'll think of something there's always the garden and there's the old people's home down against arise My wife used to go in there to chat to the old folk that still had it in them to string do words together this seemed to be an invitation How did she die the gray gold eyes became moon for cancer of the liver that was cruel because Julie never drank a drop but then nature is cruel blanch thought of now and saying we're on our own in the end she didn't like to think of that. It's hard being on your own she said but I suppose we'll get over it he looked at her and shook his head No we'll get used to it we will get over it now and was again lying in the window casket she had made its now so that with a pillow propped at one end she could lie with her feet against the other end to press out her spine she'd been observing her sage on his rock he sat for long hours on his plateau crosslegged and motionless apparently contemplating the distance the whole business of expecting anything is an illusion he seemed to be saying look at life squarely that ask nothing from it I agree Nan said but she did not utter the words aloud. She wanted if he could hear her thoughts as it seemed she could hear his Don't ask he seemed to say don't ask and you might be told the buzz around the door when suddenly making a start and quick a neck oh not the voice said and faded out Nan struggled out of her coffin rubbing her shoulder to chase away the mischievous grammarian that might have crept into the joint through the distorting crackle of the n.t. Phone she just made out Help I'm not disturbing you to what do I owe the pleasure she asked as Blanche emerged from the left I'm sorry I am disturbing you you have already seen my eyes were coming. Now and made tea while Blanche paced about her sitting room sit down for heaven's sake Nan ordered you making me jump a blunt settled herself on the sofa. I like your with the cushions coffin man said coming through I'm wearing it in sugar no you don't do you know thank you but if you aren't about to die I hope Hope's got nothing to do with it and said shortly I like to be prepared couldn't miss goodness has got more to do with either man said annoyance at the assault on her piece making her relentless The world's not a nice place in case you hadn't noticed Blanche felt crushed she'd come around to Nan's because Nan was the only person she could safely tell of her shoplifting escapade she was aware that in doing this she risked causing annoyance but a need to convey not only the fact of having been detected but the exhilaration provoked by the outcome had overridden caution I was caught shoplifting today she announced rather sullenly if not to hope for reaction she was disappointed I said it was only a matter of time if I could spot you were trained I was bound to soon enough he said I was practiced Blant said Now absurdly annoyed. And decided to be nasty Who's he when he's at home I better go said she put down the mug of tea I'm sorry she began looking around rather wildly for her bag it's Ok now and said more gently carry on tell me what happened I'm all ears over in reading Rose's mother was having another conversation with her husband that Mina has asked to take Rosie for a little holiday she wants to take Rosie to way mutha over the summer what do you think. Right has been said his p.s.a. Had confronted him as he tried to step out by the fire exit to the car park. I don't see there's much harm in it do you his wife went on no right her husband said he's P.A.'s eyes had that hard glittering look which from the 1st had provoked anxiety in him said I hear you're off to Glasgow she'd said with the intonation matching the glitter in her eyes when did you get that exciting news may Why not ask beside him Rose's mother suddenly more attractive for her lack of letter was saying and it would mean we could do a quick trip to task over and check out the property while she looks after Rose Yeah right her husband was calculating how he could get into the locked drawer in his p.s. Desk without being found out sounds to me as if you got lucky with your Alan McLean Nan said after she listened to bludgeon story plant consider this feeling the rare satisfaction of one whom the fates in their inscrutable calculations have decided for the moment to let off the hook I was wasn't I. So now you're wondering are you going to see him again blanch plashed Oh no his wife died and he's clearly still very cut up about all the more reason to be wanting a replacement than suggested men like being married better than women in the long run I can't see how you'd get in touch he didn't take my number so that's what's eating her Nan thought she's come around for advice he must have told you something about himself only that he lives in Cannes agreed Nan waited suspecting there was more oh and his wife used to visit an old folks' home their plants admitted they then said find the overworks home they'll know him through the wife but it was no embarrassed she hadn't herself recognised the direction in which Allan McLane that nudged her thoughts I did want to chase after him you do Nancy said or you wouldn't be here talking about him. You're both lonely and missing your spouses and now with him knowing about your shoplifting you have a secret between you she knew there were few things more binding 00 the fellow doing by the way Oh but you mean yes him Nancy said abused he don't want to give him up just because you found this Allen McLean chappie when it comes to the fellows the more the merrier as my grandmother used to say Nan didn't add that her grandmother had used this ploy to keep herself safely single for the whole of her widowed life blonds was cut from a very different cloth Blanche Nance a miser needed a man to give her definition. This was not something Nan herself had felt any need for if anything it was she who had been the defining presence certainly this was the case with her husband Terence her mind dipped into the deep past and brought up a steady blackhead young man with eyes the color of the sea a mission he had not so much defined her as brought her out they had brought each other out well Blunt said observing that hers doesn't fall into a reverie I should leave you in peace she made no move to go Nan's mind unthinkingly conjured Haim a shot of the salt deep where his young body now long since beer after a flash lay of his bones are coral made coral was what time made and what Shakespeare who was a past master playing with time made of a boy's last father not last a toll saved himself but Shakespeare of all people knew there was only so much time granted to one life span unleashed now her thoughts ran dangerously back to the far off day she had written to him is saying she would not be coming back that holiday from Oxford to which she had won that hard and scholarship she had to finals to revise for she had explained and needed to get ahead down and work but at the last minute missing him badly she changed her mind arriving finally after the grueling journey up his and dabs on that maddeningly Slowcoach it was to learn that hey mission his fishing mates had gone the previous night for a drunken swim that hey mission not returned and was feared drowned. No time to be lost she suddenly declaimed Blanche jumped to her feet I'm so sorry I should go she scrambled into her coat very God and said briskly off you go with Blanche dismissed she resumed her position in the casket lie back the willows moment lie here in our arms. We will Howard you as the river runs by. Grandmothers continues on Monday it was written abridged by Sally because and read by Allan a brown the producer is Kirsty Williams. Now media for it's time for you and yours with Peter White Hello welcome to raid a force consumer program today is Green Friday the New Black Friday as the sales are on what are we buying and indeed are we actually buying We'll have more on that in a minute but if you're in the market for a bargain do your green good intentions fall by the wayside revival Mars rover erupted and I that was all of it well whether we needed a mythical price and it is a good price colorful surprise us amazing photos Meanwhile it's a dark Friday for end Palace star with $4.00 and a half 1000 jobs under threat so why are they in trouble and every Friday is a Green Friday if you can cycle to work but where is the best place to commute on 2 wheels it's got several cycle lanes so the cyclists and the pressures don't mix at all and it makes the journey so much better find out which Windy City it is in before the end of the program you can contact us and we'd like you to e-mail you and yours at b.b.c. U.k. On social media use the hash tag you and yours or you can text 8484 for. Now Black Friday has become the most important day in the u.k. Shopping calendar as retailers compete with each other to offer consumers the best deals research carried out for this program suggest more people than ever are likely to shop in this year's event and a 3rd will spend more money the last year with our reporter Sam thought it is here Sam but Friday has changed the way we shop really hasn't I think it has us and where able to see how it's changed our shopping habits because for the past 4 years we've surveyed shoppers about their intentions to shop over the Black Friday weekend and were able to compare those results take this year 55 percent of you case. Opera's say they're likely to buy something on Black Friday this is fairly similar to what people bought last year books in 2016 we found that only a 3rd of people bought anything on Black Friday so I think what's happening it with Black Fridays are becoming an event which people expect and they plan their shopping around it new might have remembered a couple of years ago some of the retailers said they wouldn't take part now you don't hear that at all all retailers want to be involved because they're worried about losing out to their competitors and you can understand why the Center for Retail Research predicts that we will spend 2500000000 pounds today which is 3.4 percent more than we did last year Ok so I was spending our money well we've surveyed a $1000.00 shoppers and they're saying that they're going to be spending money on things like clothes and T.V.'s tablets food and drink beauty products but most surprisingly this year when we compared it with previous years they a lot of people are buying Christmas presents this Black Friday say 55 percent of people will be buying Christmas presents and that's quite a shift this Black Friday was always seen as the point at which it would kick off the Christmas shopping spending for spree but now it might be that most people have done all the Christmas shopping before December the 1st here's what some shoppers it into traffic Santa in Manchester have been buying if I am buying something I will go out and I'm from perhaps wait for that day but then I've noticed also particularly the she got fried started last week so I did some shopping online I got some you know some of his online that were supposed to be Black Friday so you will hang on I would wait for a particular discount on a particular part of yet purely because I'm thinking about Christmas and Jim a Christmas shopping I bought a book right and that was a 50 facts on top 7 pounds for that is it looks like a very low return for trim with Dorothy Perkins that was the proprieties 100 and that was it good Bowden 12 pounds. And I think it's 50 percent off your hands how to write it off yeah you. Can you so we're very pleased that you come out specifically for the Black Friday sale yes specifically to do a little bit of shopping because it's Black Friday so what do you think of Black Friday do you think it sort of become integrity to the shopping calendar now I think it happens yes definitely I want my Christmas shopping till later on in December and I go for Christmas presents a couple of weeks ago the Build a book to Friday because there were already cutting the prices then so some pretty happy customers there Sam you've been looking at what deals there are out there so one of the things yes all in the line of research should understand online and in stores and there are some heavy discounts out there and if you want specific products say the best deal I found is 70 percent off another trick toothbrush on Alison but what I've noticed this year is that there are blanket deals so all the shops that I visited yesterday in the Trafford center have got discounts of everything so 25 percent off in Top Shop For example 40 percent off Victoria's Secret's and like 20 to 30 percent off in Selfridges and this is something you'll find if you go to salary Davey's shop craft as companion they sell things like glue and glitter artist paints brushes and stuff sewing in needlecraft Now earlier this year so it became one of the dragons on the b.b.c. Dragon's Den and she says that she loves Friday and she offers a range of discounts I always thought Black Friday was very similar to our books. The day after Christmas and Black Friday is the day after Thanksgiving for them in the u.s. And I was actually in the u.s. One I went Christmas shopping in New York 11 November and I remember going in the shops on Black Friday assuming they just have everything the full price for a few weeks slashed into the sale and it wasn't like that at all what I realized is a lot of the big retailers that actually Bolton. And commissioned specifically. But they were really really good people. With the mindset of I'm going to get it so they have to have a it's always stayed with me and now we do a lot of business in the us. The big box retailers that we work with commission. And what they're always asking for is. A better price. And. If you look at the sites in the u.s. They are keeping things. Whereas in the u.k. It seem